Tech Gumbo

We started Tech Gumbo in Nov 2014 as a conversational show of news, information & updates about the past, present & future of all things technology in a topical, interesting and digestible way.

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Hackers Breach Christie’s Auction House, FTC Warns Of More Scams, Preventing Facebook From Sharing Your Data, Win 10 EOL Options, Zoom Stupidities

News and Updates: Hackers breach Christies’ Auction House, Christies’ ignores ransom demands! FTC warns scammers are using more email and less cell phones using big brand names How to stop Facebook from sharing all of your personal data Windows 10 End Of Life is Oct2025, what are your options A man Zooms into his court proceed about a suspending driver’s license, while driving

Jun 10, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 468

How Big Is Google, Smartphones Banned From The Classroom, Parents Struggle With The Ban, Does Banning Smartphones From The Classroom Make A Difference?

The Question of the Week: You guys talk about it, but how big is Google? The Big Stories: Schools ban smartphones, social media usage goes down, things get better 43% of schools already have a ban on smartphones, very few actually enforce the ban Parents struggle with smartphone ban more than students Should smartphones be allowed in the classroom?

May 16, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 467

TikTok Sues U.S., iPhone Spyware, 3rd Party iOS App Store, Google and Microsoft on Passkeys, LinkedIn Games Launches, Starlink Update

----more----News and Updates: TikTok sues U.S. Gov’t to block the sale/ban law iPhones are having trouble with Zero-Click Spyware A 3rd party iOS App store launches in the EU Passkeys go over the 400 Mil users on Google Microsoft brings passkey support to Office accounts LinkedIn launches games on their platform, now you can brag about goofing off Starlink is 60% of all spacecraft in orbit

May 13, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 466

AI Hype Bubble, Gen AI And Job Loss?, Gen AI Relacing Call Centers, Catholic AI Priest Gives Strange Answers

The Big Stories: Is the Gen AI Hype leveling off? Google says Gen AI will not take jobs any time soon Gen AI could start replacing call centers in 2025 Microsoft investing Billions in AI Infrastructure where most call centers are now Catholic group created an “AI Priest” bot, who gave strange answers and is no longer a Priest

May 09, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 465

Net Neutrality Returns, TikTok Updates, NHTSA Investigating Tesla, Tesla Layoffs

News and Updates: FCC bringing back Net Neutrality TikTok says it will shut down US presence before selling ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin and why this is complicated NHTSA is investigating Tesla’s Autopilot claims and capabilities, and fatal crashes the cause Tesla laying off 14K employees, still more to come

May 06, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 464

Tik-Tok Update, Datacenters- Growth & Resource Consumptions Out of Control

The Question of the Week: What’s next for Tik-Tok? The Big Stories: Datacenters growth explosive growth in numbers and consumption Trends why datacenters are growing AI and Cloud Computing are culprit for datacenter power and resources consumption

May 02, 2024•23 min•Season 10Ep. 463

Space Force Exercise, Starlink On Black Market, NASA Wants Samples From Mars, NASA’s New Time Standard On Moon, Battery Powered Appliances, Too Much Solar Power

News and Updates: Space Force to practice “On -Orbit Aggression” exercises in space Starlink is forced to crackdown on unauthorized users in Sudan, Zimbabwe, South Africa and more NASA looking for better ways to get samples back from Mars rover projects NASA needs to create a time standard for the Moon Will battery power large home appliances Roof top solar panels creating too much power in Southern California

Apr 29, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 462

How Much Internet Bandwidth?, EU Passes Comprehensive AI Act, Congress Files An AI Bill, , UK Criminalize Sexual Deepfakes, Netflix AI Generated Usage Dilemma

The Question of the Week: How Much Internet Bandwidth Do I Really Need? The Big Stories: EU law passes first comprehensive laws on AI, including new restrictions on how it can be used Congress files a bill forcing AI to reveal copyrighted art K. criminalizes the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images and videos against women Netflix may have used AI Generated images of a real person in a true crime documentary

Apr 25, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 461

YouTube Is #1 And Still Cracking Down On Ad-Blockers, Win 11 Upgrade, Microsoft Breach Affecting US Gov’t, Disney HoloTiles, Humane AI Pin Review

News and Updates: YouTube is the #1 source for music and video entertainment and education YouTube is still cracking down on Ad-Blockers, despite Ad-blockers being available in Chrome Store New patch removes “Blue Screen of Death” problem for upgrading to Win11 Russian security breach into Microsoft still causing problems throughout the US Government Disney shows off their new HoloTile Humane AP Pin is horrible, way too expensive, way under performing...

Apr 22, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 460

Cyber Security And The Elderly, AI And Fast-food

The Question of the Week: How do I talk about Cyber Security to my elderly parents? How Older Adults Can Improve Their Personal Cyber Security And Avoid Scams The Big Stories: Taco Bell & Pizza Hut launching AI App to help run the restaurants The truth about AI Drive Thru’s- Its humans in the Philippines AI Voice Recognition is still a problem for drive thru’s

Apr 18, 2024•22 min•Season 10Ep. 459

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